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I personally am not interested in a server at the moment and I prefer to play vanilla and whatever, I just wanted to make a point about the idea of dreading the downfall of a server.

The thing with Minecraft servers (unless it's a giant public server) is that it's just like singleplayer, but with other people: Eventually you get bored of what's there and you feel like you did all the things, so you stop going and eventually the server ceases to be hosted. That's just the nature of the game, and it certainly doesn't stop us playing singleplayer worlds wherein we do the same thing. These servers keep popping up because, just like in singleplayer, sometimes we get bored with a world and then take a break for a while and eventually start a new world.

In short, don't let the idea of a server "going down the toilet" keep you from expressing interest in playing for a while.

Well, I usually am more interested in playing on a server, because I find absolutely no joy in building in Minecraft, unless I have other people to show the things I build to. (works a lot better when the server is close-knit, those are hard to find)

A community largely is a product of itself. Do not blame Spudo for not feeling comfortable as a part of what this community is. Community management is a big job that is difficult to always do to the liking of the community in question, and it is a different thing entirely to also be the sole owner and creator of a site. If you don't like the way this site is in the... Oh, whole four months or so you've had an account here, perhaps you should find a community which suits you better. Perhaps you should also not pass judgment on the strife of a community without having been present for any of the history of it.

It's not about Fran's sexual or social identity, or even necessarily about who else she might be. The problem is that she has done a lot of manipulative things and taken herself on a lot of vendettas/crusades which are harmful to other users and the community as a whole; people seem to be getting caught up in the argument of whether she is or isn't someone and should or shouldn't be banned for it, instead of acknowledging this in their personal review of opinion on the matter. It doesn't mean that people can't be changed, but try to remember that she was banned for her behaviour, not for her identity.

Mixed:
It's no secret that you and I don't exactly see eye to eye. Sometimes I do poke fun at you, but really only in jest. You're not always popular among your followers, but people are often times more unfair to you than you could be to any one user. With the exception of a handful of people (many of which are people who help you manage the site to begin with), the userbase seems largely unaware of what all you have to weigh with every decision you make about the sites or how to handle user issues - and the difficult position that the users sometimes put you in to make the calls that need to be made, but that nobody wants to hear. I've said it before and I'll say it again, we are our own undoing as a userbase.
I fully support your decision to tend to your garden as you've seen fit to do in the last month or two. There are plenty of other users who feel the same way.

Mixed:
I used to not understand the userbase's cumulative distaste for Heiveld, I thought he was alright. As anakin said, he's difficult to interact with sometimes. Often times, I found that the only way to interact positively with him was to remain completely neutral or to say nothing at all. He wasn't combative, but he truly was difficult. He wasn't destructive in his nuisances, but he wasn't constructive, either.